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Viral image stated on December 05, 2022 in an Instagram post:
A photo shows a CIA agent impersonating Adolf Hitler.
By Ciara O'Rourke• December 7, 2022
Facebook posts stated on March 21, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Quotes Adolf Hitler as saying the best way to control a people is "to take a little of their freedom at a time."
By Samantha Putterman• April 1, 2019
Instagram posts stated on December 04, 2022 in a post:
Says Hitler said Black people are the “true Hebrews.”
By Gabrielle Settles• December 6, 2022
Donald Trump stated on October 23, 2024 in a post on X:
Vice President Kamala Harris has been “going so far as to call me Adolf Hitler.”
By Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• October 24, 2024
Allen Frances stated on August 25, 2019 in remarks on CNN's "Reliable Sources":
"Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were in the last century. He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were."
By Louis Jacobson• August 26, 2019
Viral image stated on June 02, 2020 in a Facebook post:
A photo shows Adolf Hitler holding a Bible like Donald Trump.
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 2, 2020
Lena Taylor stated on February 15, 2011 in in a TV interview, as well as other venues:
Hitler "abolished unions and that’s what" Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is "doing today."
By Tom Kertscher• February 22, 2011
Instagram posts stated on December 03, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Henry Kissinger’s “deathbed confession” shows “Adolf Hitler was buried in Spain” and lived to age 68.
By Jeff Cercone• December 6, 2022
Sean Spicer stated on April 11, 2017 in comments to reporters:
Says Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. ... He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that (Bashar al-)Assad is doing."  
By Jon Greenberg• April 11, 2017
X posts stated on October 22, 2024 in posts on X:
A photo shows The Atlantic published a story headlined “Trump is Literally Hitler.”
By Madison Czopek• October 23, 2024
Viral image stated on April 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Says Adolf Hitler said, “The day mankind finds out what I was trying to defend this nation, Germany, from, then that’s the day World War III starts.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 18, 2022
Viral image stated on December 06, 2022 in an Instagram post:
Marjorie Taylor Greene quoted Adolf Hitler on Christianity.
By Ciara O'Rourke• December 8, 2022
Scott Walker stated on October 12, 2015 in a tweet:
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board "wanted to consider Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler as valid signatures on recall petitions."
By James B. Nelson• October 16, 2015
David Simmons stated on March 03, 2018 in a vote in the Florida senate:
"Adolf Hitler confiscated all the weapons — took all the weapons, had a registry of everybody — and then on the night of June 30, 1934, sent out his secret police and murdered all of his political opponents."
By Jon Greenberg• March 6, 2018
Viral image stated on May 17, 2021 in an Instagram post:
Photo shows an anti-Israel activist holding a photo of Adolf Hitler.
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 18, 2021
Instagram posts stated on January 30, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“George Soros worked for Hitler. Klaus Schwab’s father also worked for Hitler.”
By Loreben Tuquero• February 8, 2024
Sherrod Brown stated on March 03, 2011 in a speech in the Senate:
"Hitler didn't want unions. Stalin didn't want unions. Mubarak didn't want independent unions. These autocrats in history don't want independent unions."
By Tom Feran• March 8, 2011
Threads posts stated on August 04, 2024 in a post:
Image shows Hitler in similar scene as Trump.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 9, 2024
Threads posts stated on October 23, 2024 in a Threads post:
Kamala Harris’ statements about Trump invoking Adolf Hitler were based on a “debunked hoax from The Atlantic.”
By Sofia Ahmed• October 25, 2024
Viral image stated on August 03, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Angela Merkel is the daughter of Adolf Hitler, Justin Trudeau is the son of Fidel Castro and Barbara Bush is the daughter of Aleister Crowley.
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 6, 2020

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By W. Gardner Selby• February 24, 2011

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By Angie Drobnic Holan• June 5, 2020

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By Emma Hinchliffe, W. Gardner Selby• December 4, 2015

Was the Civil War unconstitutional?

By Will Doran• April 14, 2017

Mailbag: Social Security as a Ponzi scheme

By W. Gardner Selby• August 31, 2011

PolitiFact fact-checks Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Post

By Jon Greenberg, Angie Drobnic Holan, John Kruzel• March 2, 2018

Chain e-mails are back — and they're still wrong

By Bill Adair, Alexander Lane• February 11, 2009

Fact-checking the prank call and other Wisconsin claims

By Bill Adair• February 24, 2011

Fact-check: Darkest Hour movie gets Winston Churchill mostly right

By Jon Greenberg• February 26, 2018

JD Vance is Trump’s VP pick. His relationship with Trump, controversies and comments, fact-checked

By Samantha Putterman• July 16, 2024

Claims that we've heard again...and again

By James B. Nelson• November 13, 2015

How an antisemitic conspiracy theory amplified by Ye, Kyrie Irving divides Black, Jewish people

By Salvador Rodriguez-Ruiz, Gabrielle Settles• February 21, 2023

Banned barbecue to Bernie Sanders and Nazis, our most-clicked fact checks of 2015

By W. Gardner Selby• December 27, 2015

Fact-checking Arizona’s 2020 Senate race between McSally and Kelly

By Miriam Valverde• October 30, 2020

Rounding up our Lena Taylor fact checks

By Eric Litke• September 3, 2019

How Ye stirred up antisemitism among social media users

By Gabrielle Settles• October 25, 2022

2024 RNC fact-check: What Trump VP pick JD Vance got right, wrong in Milwaukee speech

By PolitiFact Staff • July 18, 2024

Our October High Five

By James B. Nelson• November 3, 2015

Gauging Republican beliefs about Obama

By W. Gardner Selby• May 31, 2012